Sobran's -- Shakespeare/Oxford Library

The Lady Is a Man The admission that whoever wrote these poems had some homosexual experience means that the sonnets are about real experiences.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of August 28, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Special Edition Jonathan Bate’s edition is incomparably superior to all the rest. His knowledge of textual problems and previous commentary seems to me prodigious in its detail and thoroughness.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of May 22, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Sobran Method: A True Story Instilling a reverence for the Bard is the time-tested way of making kids loathe him	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of May 3, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
A Time for Digression William Shakespeare was the first dramatist ever to write immortal comedies as well as tragedies. And he didn’t keep them apart.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of April 19, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
You Be the Judge Quotations from the Bard	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of April 3, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Shakespeare Bigots According to Wells’s way of thinking, the greater the number of people who disagree with you, and the more various their reasons and alternatives, the stronger your own position must be.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of March 22, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
A Coriolanus in Our Future? A man who can seldom speak in public without causing a riot.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of March 8, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Fun of Falstaff He is master of the situation, not its butt.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of February 22, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Fine-Filed Phrases Notice how much Shakespeare can say in ten words or fewer.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of February 22, 2007; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Hamlet’s Lame Creator The Bad Quarto reflects an early version of the “Shakespearean” play by its actual author.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of October 3, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
My Ilk and I Defenders of the Stratford man’s authorship of the poems frequently resort to the ad hominem argument.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of June 29, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Hamlet That Never Was Nobody is as credulous as an expert with a pet hypothesis.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of June 22, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare and Ms. Grundy The freedom Shakespeare had that we don’t.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of June 1, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespearean Masterpiece The one movie production of a Shakespeare play I like	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of April 13, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
How to Handle a Woman Richard III offers hope to the rest of us.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of January 17, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Bard in Retirement Simple common sense might have saved them from embarrassing errors.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of January 3, 2006; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Reflections of a Conspirator Original insights are a little hard to come by.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of December 15, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
What’s in a Pronoun? My seventh-grade English teacher and a key to the Shakespeare-authorship question [;-)]	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of December 8, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Clare Asquith, Shakespeare, and the Catholic Question Coded Catholic sympathies	•	*Washington Watch* column of September 29, 2005; reprinted with permission of the *The Wanderer*
Hamnet’s Father We are asked to believe that he spoke of fatherhood, but not of his son.	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of September 13, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Queer Bard? First Folio Fundamentalism	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of August 30, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Lear’s Fool Everything changes when Lear mutters to himself, “I did her wrong.”	•	“Reactionary Utopian” column of August 18, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Language of Lear The language, like the story itself, overwhelms us.	•	column of June 16, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Kyd Stuff There’s no evidence that the “Ur-Hamlet” play ascribed to Thomas Kyd ever existed.	•	column of May 12, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare’s “Early” Poems Poems that show that the dating of the plays is wrong — and that William of Stratford isn’t the author	•	reprinted from the January 2005 (Volume 12, Number 1) issue of SOBRAN’S
The Baker Street Shakespeareans What two fictious characters have in common	•	column of February 10, 2005; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Death of Shakespeare How Edward de Vere came to give away the greatest literary reputation of modern times	•	column of June 24, 2004; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Burton’s Lost Hamlet A curious production	•	column of January 22, 2004; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Bard’s Orphans A major contribution to Shakespeare studies showing that Oxford is a major figure in the “Elizabethen sonnet craze.”	•	reprinted from the April 2003 (Volume 10, Number 4) issue of SOBRAN’S
Titus and Lucrece These two works could not have been written in the same year.	•	column of May 1, 2003; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Olivier and His Successors There are versions that make Olivier’s seem a little old-fashioned, but they have none of his magnificence, his panther fury, his genius for making a line of Shakespeare sound like a trumpet blast.	•	column of May 1, 2003; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare’s Social Life Oxford seems to have known everybody the Stratford man didn’t but should have.	•	column of April 17, 2003; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare and the Directors Only one director takes you into the Bard’s world, where the feudal and the supernatural mix.	•	column of November 12, 2002; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Rejoice! A cottage industry of Shakespeare forgeries	•	column of June 20, 2002; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare and the Snobs If William of Stratford had been a genius, he might have written wonderful plays, but they would have been very different from Hamlet, even if they were greater.	•	column of April 9, 2002; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Whose Testimony? Who ya gonna believe? Shakespeare’s friends or Shakespeare?	•	column of April 17, 2001; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare and DNA Whatcha gonna believe? What the experts tell ya or the evidence of your own eyes?	•	column of March 8, 2001; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
The Spirit of Falstaff Harold Clarke Goddard and The Meaning of Shakespeare	•	reprinted from the December 2000 (Volume 7, Number 12) issue of SOBRAN’S
Making Sense of Shakespeare A discussion of William Shakespeare: The Man behind the Genius by Anthony Holden	•	column of July 27, 2000; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
David Kathman and the “Historical Record” A reply to David Kathman’s review of Alias Shakespeare	•	an original essay, not published elsewhere
The Rivals John Gielgud was the Bard’s humble servant.	•	column of May 23, 2000; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Shakespeare’s Folks Why it matters who “Shakespeare’s” uncle was	•	reprinted from the March 2000 (Volume 7, Number 3) issue of SOBRAN’S
Happy Birthday, “Shakespeare”! Edward de Vere was born 450 years ago yesterday. Sooner or later, the scholars are going to have to acknowledge that he was Shakespeare.	•	column of April 13, 2000; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Who Are the Snobs? The abysmal intellectual standards that prevail in academic Shakespeare studies	•	column of February 29, 2000; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Honoring the True Bard Why it matters who “Shakespeare” was	•	column of February 24, 2000; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
Giving Away the Game How Stratfordians implicitly accept Oxfordian claims	•	column of November 25, 1999; reprinted with permission of the Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation
How Old Was Oxford’s Daughter, and When Did William Lose His Hair? A reply to Alan Nelson	•	an original essay, not published elsewhere
Debating Shakespeare In a debate, always notice what your opponents don’t say.	•	column of July 8, 1999: reprinted with permission of the Universal Press Syndicate
Who Done Shakespeare? Experts literally don’t know.	•	column of March 18, 1999; reprinted with permission of the Universal Press Syndicate
Introduction to Emaricdulfe	•	reprinted from the January 1998 (Volume 5, Number 1) issue of SOBRAN’S
The Mystery of Emaricdulfe Shakespearean parallels in a sonnet cycle by an unknown poet	•	reprinted from the January 1998 (Volume 5, Number 1) issue of SOBRAN’S

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